halm

halm , 15 days ago

BECOME BITCOIN
BECOME LIGHTNING

LOL, not in a million years. Dumping this like the cryptocurrency infected garbage it is.

halm , 14 days ago

I mean, that quote is truer for any regular currency than it is for shitcoin. The only unique thing about cryptocurrency (and especially POW ones) is that it's flushing the environment down the drain even quicker than bog standard hypercapitalism. And still you can't use your fucking monopoly money to buy a bottled water.

halm , 14 days ago

"Sovereignty", that big white whale of the dysfunctional far right?

halm , 14 days ago

True. Tipi, Umbrel and CasaOS are savvy enough to do this. But do you really want to teach more cryptobros to slip their message under the threshold? I'm fine that they show their true goals front and centre, it's like a note saying "hit me" taped to their backs.

halm , 14 days ago

It's been a buzzword among the ultra-libertarian, anti-government, tinfoil hat wearing set for decades.

halm , 14 days ago

The title literally says "Sovereign computing". Are you okay? I do recommend reading from the top down, for more information please re-read.

halm , 14 days ago

Okay, sorry for the sarcasm. I think there is a certain overlap in the language used around general privacy principles and the more... out there, political anti-society movements.

Sometimes it's innocent and random but when I see somebody putting cryptocurrency up front in their project and using "sovereign computing" as a tagline, my internal crackpot detector goes nuts. I'm fairly sure that deep down these people would want to see the world burn to stay warm toward the end.

halm , 8 days ago

You say that with such certainty, as if proof of stake schemes won't simply be a greenwashing alibi for accelerating validation of currencies using them, to the point of the same carbon footprint as POW.

You're simply wrong to say that POS is without environmental impact, even Ethereum's carbon reductions were only that (and not nearly as high as they claimed).

halm , 16 days ago

Funny how Bountysource deteriorated at the exact time cryptocurrency got involved.

halm , 17 days ago

Does Nitter still work for you? Because several instances officially closed when "Twitter blocked the last known way to access their network without a user account" (quoted from nitter.cz).

halm , 18 days ago

It just cited the wrong Neal Stephenson book, so not way off.

halm , 18 days ago

What can possibly go wrong?

halm , 19 days ago

Yeah well, there are surveillance reasons you don't want to rely on services based in the USA.

halm , 19 days ago

Well, fuck. It was fun while it lasted.

halm , 19 days ago

It's definitely true that Twitter consistently failed to raise the expected profit for stockholders, which is probably why they appreciated the wild overshot that Musk offered. I sort of appreciated that the company could stay so uncommercial for as long as it did, running only on hype.

Did Nazis use to "run rampant" on there before? Maybe not straight up, clear cut Nazis but there were some people who really dogwhistled in that direction going way back.

halm , 20 days ago

I used to have an old laptop stuck in a corner just running Transmission. I called that Seed because that was its sole purpose. Its replacement is fully automated *arr and media server, making it both seed and vault, so I had to call it Spitsbergen (reference)

halm , 21 days ago

I'm sympathetic to a lot of Balkan's points but somehow everything he's involved in is overshadowed by his belligerent online persona. Stop picking fights, dude, and get shit done instead.

halm , 21 days ago

Non-paywalled archive.is link

halm , 23 days ago

If you want to scale way down, Sabre develops the very lightweight Baïkal. I've been using it for a couple of years, and it's worked without a hitch. Just sits there and does its thing.

halm , 23 days ago

Completely agree about Nextcloud. The project rose to fame on selfhosters beta testing it, then buddied up to enterprise users and ditched the initial user base.

halm , 23 days ago (edited 22 days ago)

Ooh, good one! I'll try to stick to the very basics that I've installed, different strokes for different use cases and all.

• MicroG — a non-Google framework to circumvent annoying GSF dependencies.
• DAVx5 — will sync calendars and contacts from your own cal/cardDAV instance.
• ICSx5 — helps add external ICS calendars into your calendar.
• Syncthing — keeps documents, pictures, etc synced between devices.
• KISS launcher — search based launcher. No bloat, no muss, no fuss. Everything else seems to try too hard after KISS.
• Fossify apps. There's a whole suite but I only use
  • Fossify calendar,
  • Fossify contacts,
  • Fossify SMS messenger.
• Fennec — a Firefox that passes F-droid privacy muster.
• K-9 mail — um, is this top grade email app named after the robot dog in Doctor Who? Affirmative.
• Open camera — so much better than a basic Android camera app.
• Authenticator Pro — 2-factor authetication (dunno why it's called "Pro", it's not like there's a paid tier)
• Obtainium — another app manager, for the fringe cases where an app isn't on F-droid but you trust its source enough to download it from there.

Edited to add:

• NewPipe! — third party YouTube player that puts a stick in Google's tracking and profiling.

Additional repositories

F-droid is great and all but its best feature really is that you can add other app repositories alongside the flagship one. IMO you absolutely need to add the following repos for the best selection (ie., adapted to my list above 😉)

• IzzyOnDroid
• MicroG
• NewPipe

Suggestions for more repos?

halm , 23 days ago

That would be in your phone main settings I guess, and specific to your device? In no Android stock or custom ROM I've used have I seen a "photos button (bottom right)".

halm , 23 days ago

Oh, good catch! They have their own repository that can easily be added to the F-droid app. I think repos deserve special mention, editing my op.

halm , 22 days ago

Hmmm, so DivestOS supports bootloader relocking, huh? I'll have to give that a look.

halm , 24 days ago

It is federated, but no, it isn't connected to Solid pods. Pods are just the term for flocks of whales 🙂

halm , 25 days ago

OTOH, may not fit all your criteria:

• SimpleX
• Databag
• Zulip

halm , 25 days ago

Use Gluetun. Love Gluetun. Gluetun is the answer.

Alright, alright Hypno-toad, you got me! 😅

Jokes aside, this is probably the most convincing writeup I've seen in favour of Gluetun. Thanks, will give it a go!

halm , 28 days ago

There's always a good reason not to put another crypto mining cluster into the world.

halm , 1 month ago

Phanpy, a mastodon frontend is somehow going to co-lead a battle against Meta? I'm not at all against unionising, but it sounds like you're cherry picking whatever you personally happen to use as representative of the fediverse.

halm , 1 month ago

Intelligence, on twitter. Nah, not buying it.

halm , 1 month ago

Only one I can think of is Manyfold. Hope this helps.

halm , 1 month ago

Oh shoot, that was all I had. I use Tropy to manage research photos but that doesn't support 3D models AFAIK...

halm , 1 month ago

"A bit better than the official Mastodon app" isn't high praise, though. Kudos to Eugen and all other devs for the work on the Mastodon server but their mobile app is absolute shite.

halm , 1 month ago

Same here. I guess it's just an AOSP standard but it has all the clock functions I need.

halm , 1 month ago

I don't know how well this is supported by sundry source repos but off the cuff I'd say you're looking for an RSS feed of their individual releases?

Edit: Github seems to have release feeds for projects: https://piraces.dev/short-bits/github-releases-feed-atom/

halm , 1 month ago

Huh. Never heard of Cosmos before! Sounds pretty good, what's the catch?

halm , 1 month ago

I guess the latter, practical points was what I was asking about. I've tried Yunohost, I tried Podman+Cockpit... They work fine but there's always a hurdle to just having a steady home server running. But if some initial wonkiness is the worst Cosmos has to offer I'll give it a go!

halm , 1 month ago

OP says they already have the spare Rpi so your advice would mean spending $150 on used gear rather than use what they already have. Performance comparisons aside, that's just wasteful.

halm , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Reddit thread from two days ago.

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Edit: I now understand the faux pas of linking a reddit thread on Lemmy. I merely wanted to provide the background that Rossman himself links in his video description. Personally, I can't be arsed watching an op-ed video if there is a text discussion available. Different strokes I guess.

On another level, I wanted to point out that the way news travel to Lemmy is apparently more circuitous than to Reddit. If we have to wait for stuff to filter down through other channels to here, then Lemmy becomes irrelevant as a news source.

I don't offer a solution, I can only point out that in this particular case we're two days behind the source debate, and discussing a YouTube rando's take rather than the meat and potatoes of it.

halm , 1 month ago

I see my mistake, I just look for original sources rather than fucking youtubers.

halm , 1 month ago

Newpipe is a smartphone app, Invidious is a web frontend. I use the former but comparing the two are like apples and oranges. Clearly OP had their mind set on a web install.

halm , 1 month ago

I have a similar shared hosting account that unfortunately is tied up with my main domain. It has fairly generous storage and okay pricing — but it doesn't offer SSH access so I have to go elsewhere to install a lot of the more interesting apps.

I did manage to run Nextcloud for almost a decade, although the host wasn't optimal by the end. Instead I'm hosting Baïkal for my calendar and contacts syncing needs. That is very suited for a shared hosting environment.

halm , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, unfortunately a lot of developers make their releases exclusively for server admins rather than tenants. I'm sure it's a lot easier for them, plus times have just run away from shared hosting but I sort of wish for the ease of a 5-minute, browser based install like Wordpress'.

Edited to add: Depending on your host and whether Nextcloud will run on it, there's a chance to offer your family simple file sharing? Otherwise basic bookmarking sites like Shaarli will run on shared php hosting as well.

It's not exactly industrial grade social media but micro services can be fun as well. Otherwise you can customize Wordpress quite a lot beyond just blogging.

halm , 1 month ago

Let's not overcomplicate things. OP expressly wants a device that will play media off a USB drive. That's basically Kodi on a mini PC or single board computer, as many others have suggested — or like you say, plug the USB directly in your TV. No need for "hosting" anything or other server lingo.

And "a Kodi instance"? It's just an installation on a local device, it's not like it's going to federate or anything... Sorry if this is nitpicking, your second paragraph phrasing just feels like an unnecessarily advanced answer to a simple question.

halm , 1 month ago

AFAIK Signal are pretty much FLOSS, they're just keeping their cards extremely close, to the point of turning into a data silo.

• Moxie Marlinspike famously nixed the LibreSignal app and demanded they stop using Signal servers.
• And last I heard Signal can but refuses to federate with other servers, so their available server code might as well be closed source. That is, you can setup your own Signal server but you can't connect to the network that others use...

halm , 1 month ago

It's been a while since I looked at Signal but I was aware that Marlinspike stepped down. that can only be an improvement after he effectively shut down LibreSignal. I guess projects like the Matrix bridge have somehow been more acceptable?